Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...created a commotion that forced the authorities to alter their plans. But if the Alumni are a conservative force, they are also loath to exert active pressure on College officials. The word of the President or the Provost is generally, if not always, accepted as most authoritative by the hardest-bitten grad...
...takes only 400 words of Basic English to run a battleship. With 850 words you can run the planet," mused Professor I. A. Richards, literary critie, lecturer in Humanities 1a, and one of Harvard's hardest-hitting opponents of scholarship in-a-vacuum. "Do you know that of the 22 hundred million people in the world, 15 hundred million don't read at all, or read a script which doesn't use an alphabet?" he went on, in a tone of bitterness and shock which made it plain that his fight against illiteracy and incomplete communication is a root fact...
...paper-mill worker Gordon Richard Long last week described to the Maidstone police how he killed his seven-year-old daughter because she was deformed and imbecile. "I loved my daughter very much," he said, "more so than if she had been normal-bringing about her death is the hardest thing I have ever done...
Trousdale's efficient organization has been kept intact by promoting hard workers, enabling them to become stockholders. Says Trousdale: "Anyone who works a little harder than the next guy will get somewhere." Hardest worker of all is Paul Trousdale, who was running things from his bed last week (see cut) after a tumble downstairs...
...grads trailed away from the Stadium late Saturday afternoon, even the hardest-bitten had to admit that the 1946 season was a proud one. Alumni have a way of taking traditional rivalries and inflating these matches until entire seasons are made, or broken, by the one Big Game. According to these standards, this fall's slate is very little better than that of other years when the Varsity fell before nearly every power in he east. The importance of this Yale game was accentuated by the resurgent interest of scattered sons of the University who followed the game by wire...